So I was thinking watching the shindig in Canberra with lots of smoke and rubber that just passed, the Horsepower Heroes section, where people get out their ICE's and try and hit the biggest number they possibly can with the greatest amount of money that they can pour into it.

This year it was won by a big 8 cylinder in a V with turbos and stuff hanging off it and getting to over 2,400hp.

Quite impressive.

But I was wondering, are EV's "Handicapped" in a pure HP comparison? Is there a way to calculate "Equivalent HP" if one was to say, wish to attend this festival of smoke and rubber and put the ICE's in their place with an EV, what would be a fair way to compare?

Is 1HP from an EV = to 1.5hp in a ICE? 2HP? 0.75?

I suppose the best way to explain what I'm after is that if say:

EV throws out 1,000HP on a Dyno, would an ICE have to beat it by scoring:

Possibly relevant - some (all?) the Dynos work on (angular) accelleration of a (spinning) mass, so it’s measuring power fairly accurately but if you’ve programmed in an accelleration curve or something in your EV it may think it’s wheel spinning or something.

I imagine rocking up with a truck mounted 2GW induction motor and a power cord running to the nearest substation would only work once.

As it is measuring the power at the wheels I can’t see there would be any handicap for a different source. There may be some rules developed about how long the vehicle should run for. I can’t imagine an EV full of super caps that runs at well over the 2400hp of the V8, but can only accelerate for 10 seconds before needing a recharge would be considered in the spirit of the competition.

The cars that win these events are specifically built for winning and aren’t typically street driven, but surly there would be some rules governing that they must be registered or able to be driven on the streets under ‘normal’ conditions.

The burnout has to go for a minute, again easily done with the right EV setup. It is a pipedream to build my BMW to be able to win one or both those events. It would be the one time in my life that I attended Summernats. One day when I have money to literally burn.

For the all out horsepower, Rimac battery and drivetrain x 2. Could probably fit that in a big old Holden, just don't have a million bucks for the components from Rimac.

I wonder if there has ever been a single car that won more than one of the disciplines or all of the ones involving performance of the car? I'd think 2400hp would be no good for burnouts or go to whoa, but could you just have configurable power for burnout mode?

To do the burn out comp you would need to add flames coming out of exhaust pipes, the scream of a blower and the roar of a top fueller doing it tyre warming burn out Once you had that, the other part would be easy.

There may be some rules developed about how long the vehicle should run for. I can’t imagine an EV full of super caps that runs at well over the 2400hp of the V8, but can only accelerate for 10 seconds before needing a recharge would be considered in the spirit of the competition.

At this stage I don't think there are any specific rules on this, so could probably get away with some super high HP EV on Caps, at least once

The burnout has to go for a minute, again easily done with the right EV setup. It is a pipedream to build my BMW to be able to win one or both those events. It would be the one time in my life that I attended Summernats. One day when I have money to literally burn.

Yes, that's the burnouts. Something that isn't of great interest to me.

I wonder if there has ever been a single car that won more than one of the disciplines or all of the ones involving performance of the car? I'd think 2400hp would be no good for burnouts or go to whoa, but could you just have configurable power for burnout mode?

To do the burn out comp you would need to add flames coming out of exhaust pipes, the scream of a blower and the roar of a top fueller doing it tyre warming burn out Once you had that, the other part would be easy.

Yeah, because the comp is biased as hell! One of the judging points is how much noise you can make.

To do the burn out comp you would need to add flames coming out of exhaust pipes, the scream of a blower and the roar of a top fueller doing it tyre warming burn out Once you had that, the other part would be easy.

Yeah, because the comp is biased as hell! One of the judging points is how much noise you can make.

There may be some rules developed about how long the vehicle should run for. I can’t imagine an EV full of super caps that runs at well over the 2400hp of the V8, but can only accelerate for 10 seconds before needing a recharge would be considered in the spirit of the competition.

At this stage I don't think there are any specific rules on this, so could probably get away with some super high HP EV on Caps, at least once

It has to be driven in, Dyno tested and then driven out - depending on the event holder.
45kWh of LTO's would do it - so you could drive home no problem!
At those levels a dyno test is about 5-10kWh.

Problem is the class - forced induction or naturally aspirated...
Most of the ICE cars that get these high levels of HP are totally unreliable and are built just to roll in, test and roll out.
So it would be like for like in my opinion.

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